Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 136
Cover Image
Living standards of working-age disability benefits recipients in the UK
Cribb, Jonathan; Karjalainen, Heidi; Waters, Tom - 2022
, which grows to 10ppts four years after. This is not enough to offset the loss in income on average, and income poverty rises …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013331051
Cover Image
Do More of Those in Misery Suffer from Poverty, Unemployment or Mental Illness?
Fleche, Sarah - 2015
from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes … more to explaining the presence of misery than is explained by either poverty or unemployment. This holds both with and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016269
Cover Image
The effect of in-service teacher training on student learning of english as a second language
Bando Grana, Rosangela; Li, Xia - 2014
In-service teacher training aims to improve the supply of public education. A randomized experiment was conducted in Mexico to test whether teacher training could increase teacher efficiency in public secondary schools. After seven and a half months of exposure to a trained teacher, students...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011286658
Cover Image
Trends in Individual Income Growth : Measurement Methods and British Evidence
Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2011
the fortunes of the same individuals, a longitudinal perspective is required. For this case, we develop dominance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129908
Cover Image
The Education-Health Gradient : Revisiting the Role of Socio-Emotional Skills
Gørtz, Mette; Gensowski, Miriam - 2023
Is the education-health gradient inflated because both education and health are associated with unobserved socio-emotional skills? Revisiting the literature, we find that the gradient is reduced by 30-45% by fine-grained personality facets and Locus of Control. Traditional aggregated Big-Five...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346610
Cover Image
New Evidence on Disability Benefit Claims in the UK : The Role of Health and the Local Labour Market
Roberts, Jennifer - 2019
During the 1980s and 1990s there was a steep rise in disability benefit claims in the UK, especially among older male workers, and the debate centred on the relative generosity of these benefits as well as the effects of deindustrialisation and job destruction. Since that time the disability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857709
Cover Image
The British Household Panel Survey and its Income Data
Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2010
This paper provides a self-contained introduction to the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), concentrating on aspects relevant to analysis of the distribution of household income. I discuss BHPS design features and how data on net household income are derived. The BHPS net household income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136944
Cover Image
The Income Distribution in the UK : A Picture of Advantage and Disadvantage
Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2015
is evidence about real income levels and inequality, and the prevalence of affluence and of poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028154
Cover Image
Satisfaction with Life, Happiness, and Inequality – A Pseudo-Panel Study
Jensen, Søren - 2020
The hypothesis tested in this paper is whether the increasing inequality in recent years has had a significant impact on well-being among the population in Denmark. After a survey of the literature we use attitude variables from the European Social Survey in a pseudo-panel setting covering the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840956
Cover Image
Redistribution within the tax-benefit system in Austria
Christl, Michael; Köppl-Turyna, Monika; Lorenz, Hanno; … - 2020
The aim of this study is to analyze redistribution within the Austrian tax-benefit system. In this work we take a comprehensive view and include not only direct taxation and cash benefits, but also indirect taxes and in-kind transfers. We look at two kinds of redistribution: between the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012208633